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the infinite is in him.
A PHASE OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
The production on the stage at Port
land of one of the old Morality plays,
which have their place, and an im
portant one, in the history of English
dramatic literature, is an incident
which should set our students of lit
erature in English at work. The mor
ality play was one of the early forms
of the English drama. It followed close
upon the mystery plays religious in
their conception and development; for
the drama, as every other form of llt-
Johnston. Four- j erature, and every form of art, has its
roots in the religious nature or man
TANNER CREEK ONCE MORE.
The Mayor has ascertained that no
mistake was made by the original com
mittee of experts who examined the
Tanner-Creek sewer. He took great
painB to learn the exact facts, and to
that end employed his own engineers to
go over the same ground covered by
the City Council's engineers. Any as
sumption that it was the purpose of
Mayor Williams to minimize the Im
portance or significance of any un
pleasant or damaging facts in his sup
posed desire to protect the City En
gineer was wholly unwarranted. The
Engineer is a responsible officer of the
city administration, and the Mayor as
its head took his own method of
learning the truth. That the findings
of the Mayor's experts and committee
of taxpayers agree in all essential par
ticulars with the first report is not
more a vindication of the original in
quiry than it is a vindication of Mayor force in civilization, a dependable and
night ride in a storm similar to that
in which Dr. Barber lost his life is
required of the physician. Perhaps,
however, there are more of these cases
of human stress and heroic response in
outlying country districts than we of
the city, who are accustomed, to call a
physician by telephone and he to res
pond by automobile, can well realize.
The night ride of Dr. Barber, through
its fatal termination, is brought to pub
lic view. Had he reached in safety
after his ride in the darkness of
twenty-eight miles the bedside of his
patient, the feat would have been un-
chronicled. This indicates that the
long, lonely rides of the country doctor.
through heat and cold, by day or by
night, are not confined to the chronicles
of a past generation, but that these
heroes of peace and messengers of-
healing are still -with us a moving
ter. The allegations regarding Mrs.
Maybrlck's conduct in other respects
were hot unlikely to affect Queen Vic
toria's action upon the distinctly sep
arated matter of Maybrlck's alleged
murder. In any event, the trial and
conviction of this woman, with the sub
sequent lack of official investigation,
constitute the most unsatisfactory rec
ord of British courts.
Williams purposes and policies.
Now that it is agreed on all sides
finally and beyond. any chance of fur
ther dispute that the Tanner-Creek
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of the "divine thrusting on" in human
nature. The drama in Greece had sim
ilar religious origin. So in France. So
In Germany. English drama is no ex
ception. It was in the history of the
English drama, when the form and the
expression were passing out of the rep
resentation of religious mysteries into
personification of secular Ideas, that the
morality play appeared. Througn sec
ularization of the drama, the morality
play appeared, as a substitute for the
miracle play, near four centuries ago.
From this stage it passed on into the
wide human scheme of the next pre
decessors of Shakespeare, and finally
into the mighty stream that was poured
into the great Shakespearean ocean.
The main source of the English drama
was the liturgy of the Church, and in
the course of time the term "mystery"
was applied to the religious service of
any of the great festivals of the calen
dar, and even to the services of the
church In general. These exercises
passed imperceptibly into a kind of dra
matic reDresentation. It was natural
enough that on any of the high relig
ious- festivals, on the anniversary of
any important religious personage or
event, that personage or event should
be represented In visible form, with
such details as either Scripture, legend
or the imagination of the author could
supply. Some idea may be formed
of these old religious dramas from
the titles of such of them as
have been preserved as "The Cre
ation of the World." "The Fall of
Man," "The Story of Cain and Abel,'
and "The Crucifixion of Our Lord."
Blf-sufflcient universe, not in touch T.arxre traces of the universality of
with anything beyond or above itself these-dramas may be found In the early
the general trend and outline of it I works of sculpture and painting, yet
known: nothing supernatural or mirac- extant In Europe. From this nrst
, THE ENDLESS DEBATE.
It has always been a thought that
mind and matter are not two, but one.
It Is a thought that has descended to
us from the oldest speculations of the
human race. Mind finds its expression,
jjo ifir as we know, only through mat
ter. Here is the basis of the outstand
ing controversy between science and
lalth. It is no nearer solution than it
yeas ages ago.
Through the trend of the argument in
ne direction, this material universe,
then, may become, as one writer has
put It, the living garment of God.
Gross matter, as the argument of
Berkeley would have it, becomes a
mere inference, a mode of appreciating
an idealistic cosmic reality, in which
we live and move and have our being
the whole existence, then, infused and
suffused with immanent Deity. Modern
science shows us a self-contained and
going to do about it? Somebody, or
perhaps several somebodies, is to
blame; and somebody, probably several
somebodies, must be held accountable.
The initial fault Is with the City En
gineer. He was elected by the people
expressly to direct the work of public
improvement, construction and repair
in bridges, streets and sewers, and he
and he alone subscribed to an oath
under the charter to perform those du
ties faithfully and to the" best of his
ability. Now we find him making a
public statement in which he seeks to
evade his clear responsibility in the
following
In the practical administration of politics
in the City of Portland the City Engineer
has not been permitted to name one of the
many Inspectors working under htm. The
political organization, through its managing
committee and civil service commission has
elected and named every one of them.
In other words, the inspectorships
were all political jobs whose award was
turned entirely over to the local ma
SOFTENED BY TIME.
The softening hand of time Is no
where in our history more strikingly
shown than in the regard in which
many of the leaders and fighters In the
great Rebellion are held in the North
today. Compared with the fierce intol
erance with which they were regarded
during and for some years subsequent
to the war, the showing Is one that
does credit to our human nature.
The case of Robert E. Lee is in point.
The passions of the people of the entire
North, inflamed by the shedding of the
blood of their hravest and best in many
fierce encounters with Lee's army In
the early years of the sixth decade of
the past century, found voice In exe
crating -the very name of thff great
Confederate General. Today these pas
sions are subdued, and the name of
Robert E. Lee stands for a noble man
hood, for a brave, kind and just man.
Edwin Mlms, professor of English lit'
erature in Trinity College, North Caro
lina, touches a sympathetic chord in
the hearts of the people of the North
A pathetic and horrible event was
that of the burning to death in Kitsap
County, Washington, December 8, of
three infants of 2, 4 and 5 years, while
their parents were out on the beach
digging clams. At first thought one is
disposed to censure parents who would
leave their helpless little ones alone,
subject to a calamity of this kind. But
the probability is that necessity com
pelled these people tb perform the work
in which they were engaged, a mile
distant from the home in which their
babes were sleeping. It would seem,
however, that precautions might have
been taken before leaving the house
that would have protected the dwelling
from fire and the little ones from a hor
rible death. It can but be regarded as
culpable to leave a house under such
circumstances without first extinguish
ing the light and every spark of fire
about the dwelling. In the anguish
that they have suffered, however, these
parents may be said to have expiated
bitterly and fully the sin of careless
ness which resulted in leaving them
childless.
At the meeting of the International
Seamen's Union In San Francisco
Wednesday a resolution was Introduced
condemning the use of flshtraps and
suggesting that legislation be enacted
which will prohibit their use in the
future. At first thought it may seem
strange that the matter of flshtraps
should Interest the men who sail the
seas, and yet the ever-present motive
of self-interest is there. Every year
since the establishment of the salmon
Industry on the Columbia River scores
chine. But that does not meet the ques- and nno tPnflpHv nunnsiw in thnf of and m some seasons in the past nun
tlon. The City .Engineer nas merely ex- th Smithing in wvlow niihllshPd - ureas oi sailors temporarily aoanaon
cently in the Outlook, of the last five
years of the life of Lee. A typical
product of the old South, inheriting the
best blood of several generations of
Virginia gentlemen and gentlewomen,
he was, says Professor Mlms, a leader
in the development of the New South.
plained. He has not excused nor justl
fled. He erred just as seriously in
surrendering these appointments to the
machine as he did in accepting the in
spectors' reports without scrutiny or
personal investigation if indeed that is
all he did or rather, all he did not do,
If he could not get the office without
yielding to the politicians, he had no
business to take it. Or, having taken
it on a specific contract with the poll
ticians to turn over all his appoint
ments to them, he cannot now, when
things have gone wrong, repudiate the
bargain and blame it all on the "sys
tem." The "system" cannot be officially
impeached, removed from office or in
dieted by the grand jury. The City En
the sea and engage in gillnet fishing
for a few months. So far as known,
none of these sailors have ever pur
chased a trap or engaged in seining op
erations. Had such been the case, the
resolution would undoubtedly have met
with some opposition. The ownership
He accepted the overthrow of the Kf tnat lseorei has made a dlf
ulous, no intervention of beings other stage the drama passed into another ' gineer can be, if he deserves to be.
than ourselves being considered. On
the other hand, in the concepts of re
ligion, there is a universe dependent
for its origin and maintenance upon
the power and good will of a being or
beings of which science has no knowl
edge. There is no new way of handling this
problem. One may study the whole de
bate "from the Greeks to Darwin," and
he will end always where he began.
The concepts are not comparable, nor
is the terminology of the two parts of
the subject commensurate.
The creed of the ancient Israelites
was well, or at least strikingly, sum
marized by Huxley in one of his
Nineteenth Century articles (1886).
He there said: "The chief arti
cles of the theological creed of
the old Israelites, which are made
known to us by the direct evi
dence of the ancient records, . . .
are as remarkable for that which they
contain as' for that which is absent
from them. They reveal a firm convic
tion that, when death takes place, a
something termed a soul, or spirit,
leaves the body and continues to exist
in Sheol for a period of indefinite dura
tion, even though there is no proof of
any belief in absolute immortality; that
euch spirits can return to earth to pos
sess and inspire, the living; that they
are in appearance and in disposition
likenesses of the men to whom they be
longed, but that, as spirits, they have
larger powers and are freer from phys
ical limitations; that they thus form
one of a number of kinds of spiritual
existence known as Elohim, of whom
Jahveh, the national God of Israel, is
one; that, consistently with this view,
Jahveh was conceived as a sort of
spirit, human in aspect and sense, and
with many human passions, but with
immensely "greater intelligence and
power than any other Elohim, whether
human or divine." The mere statement
of such a cree.d was held toy Mr. Hux
ley to be a sufficient refutation. .
But, says a writer in the Hibbert
kind of renresentation. entitled a "Mor- So can. possibly, he indicted the con-
allty." "Everyman" is one of a type tractor .who imposed this most wretched
of these, though not the earliest yet job upon the city. It is nonsense for
among the earliest that have been pre
served entire. This one is printed en
tire in the first volume of Haziltt's edi
tion of Dodsley's Old English Plays
"The subject of this piece," says Dr.
Percy, in his analysis, "Is the sum
moning of the man out of the world by
death, and its moral, that nothing will
avail him but a well-spent life and the
comforts of religion." It was produced
and published about four centuries
ago. "Everyman" is the human race.
Death delivers his message to Every
man, who at once appears upon the
scene, and tries in vain by pleas and
bribes to turn the summoner away. He
applies in vain to Fellowship and Kin
dred, but they successively renounce or
forsake him. Then finally he calls to
mind one. other friend whom he has
loved all his life, and who surely will
prove true to him in his distress.
"Goodes" this abstraction is called
Property would be the modern equiva
lent. But Goods, In the presence of this
enemy, can do nothing, and Everyman
must "go." -He, however, betakes him
self to Good Deeds, who, after upbraid
ing him with his long neglect of her,
introduces him to her sister, Knowl
edge, and she leads him to the holy
man Confession, who appoints him pen
ance. This he inflicts upon himself, on
the stage, and then withdraws to re
ceive the sacraments from the priest.
On his return he begins to wax faint;
and after Strength, Beauty, Discretion
and the Five Wits, estch "personified In
the drama, have all taken their final
leave of him, he gradually expires on
the stage.
Most of the old plays of this class.
in English, have been lost The most
notable ones that have been preserved
have been made accessible to modern
readers, through Dodsley's collection.
They afford an extremely interesting
and curious study of language and
forms belonging to the transitional
him to pretend that he was deceived
and betrayed by his own workmen.
What was he doing during the entire
period of construction that he did not
see the hasty, unworkmanlike and un
safe manner in which the labor was
performed? Of course he saw It. Any
body can see it now. Perhaps the
grand jury has seen IL
As for the political machine It did,
no doubt, what all political machines
do when they can. If they could not,
there would be no political machines.
When we reform our politics we shall
have reformed our politicians. Until
then we shall go on turning out one
machine and putting in another, and
shall continue to be very unhappy that
we must do with either or any.
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR.
Dr. R. H. Barber, whose death by
drowning in the Sluslaw River occurred
recently, was a true hero. Over and
above his military record of bravery
and endurance in the Philippines a
record which was bright with duty
faithfully discharged stands undls
puted his right and title in the annals
of peace to this high rating. He was
known long and Intimately in the mili
tary service of the state as a member
of and officer in the First Regiment,
Oregon National Guard, and later .as
First Lieutenant and Captain of the
Second Oregon "Volunteers. Upon! his
Southern Confederacy as a fact, say
ing: "The war has been decided
against us; it is the part of wisdom to
acquiesce in the result and of candor
to recognize the fact."
At a time when the sting of defeat
was rankling in every Southern mind
and poverty and bitterness were the
portion of the people of the entire
South, he urged upon them the duty of
uniting in the restoration of the coun
try and the re-establishment of peace
and harmony; counseled them to avoid
controversy and conform to the new or
der of things silently, if they found it
impossible to do so cheerfully. Taking
part In none of the bitter controversies
of the time, leaving no querulous mem
oirs behind him, he has found stout de
fenders of his character and his motives
among men who once opposed him in
battle. The closing years of General
Lee's life were devoted to the educa
tional interests of 'the South. With
keen prescience he saw in the thorough
education of all classesot people in that
torn and distracted section the most
efficacious means for promoting a re
turn of prosperity.
Time was when to mention the name
of Robert E. Lee in connection with
that of Abraham Lincoln would call
forth an indignant protest In the name
of patriotism. But the passing years
have softened all of that. The people
of the North and the South understand
each other better than they did in the
heat of the slavery contest, and later,
when the vision of both .was blurred
by blood. Hence to these concluding
words of .Professor Mlm's review many
thoughtful men of both sections will
give assent:
If the spirit of Lee had prevailed In the
South and the spirit of Lincoln had prevailed
in the North, the South would now be far
ahead of where she is. Northerners will
doubtless claim that if the spirit of Lee had
dominated tho South reconstruction measures
would never have been resorted to. On the
other hand, Southerners will maintain that If
the spirit of Lincoln had been In evidence in
the years succeeding the war, injustice to the
ference in the viewpoint since the be
ginning of time.
The abnormally high prices reached
by cotton last season quite naturally
resulted in a much larger crop this sea
son and attendant lower prices. This
decline In price may not be appreciated
by the planters or by the speculators
who are "long" on cotton options, but
the thousands of mill operatives who
were forced o'ut of work by the high
prices of the raw material a year ago
will appreciate the return of the staple
to a reasonable price. In the end the
planters themselves will not suffer by a
slight dcline. The extravagant figures
to which cotton soared last season in
duced nearly every manufacturing
country on earth to engage in experi
mental cotton-growing, and out of some
of these experiments may come a new
competitor for the American cotton-
grower.
Chief Concomly, "one-eyed potentate
of the Chinooks. and Chief Coboway,
august sachem of the Clatsops, were dig
nified monarch when Lewis and Clark
brought greetings from the Great "White
Father 99 yeara ago, even though they
scratched. And tho monarchs scratched
much; likewise their braves, for the agile
"beasts" wore as. tho sands of the sea
shore for multitude, and hungry withal.
'Dignified" is used advisedly here, and
let no reader grin; for. in those days It
was not accounted vulgar to soothe tho
track of a hot-footed tormentor with fric
tion of one's digits. The luxury was en
joyed In all society, elect or reprobate.
and it was proper at all times to seek
the gratification wherever on the body
it could be found.
This genteel custom was the product of
what pedants might call evolution, since
It certainly came of adaptation to en
vironment. The environment was the most
"creepy" that Lewis and Clark dlscov
ered In their travels. It produced a racial
trait which ethnologists some day may
recosmlze. And the explorers, not
"adapted" to such phlebotomy, were fit to
survive only through exercise of superior
wits.
"The fleas." wrote the explorers at Fort
Clatsop on December 25, 1S03, "which an
noyed us near the portage of the Great
Falls (Celllo), have taken such possession
of our clothes that we are obliged to have
a regular search every day through our
blankets, as a necessary preliminary to
sleeping at night. These animals, indeed.
are so numerous that they are almost a
calamity to the Indians of this country-"
At the "Great Falls" the explorers came
Upon their "new acquaintances," as thoy
called their enemies. The consequent tor
ment did much to mitigate the joy of re
cent discoveries. "Wo found," wrote the
explorers, "that Indians had camped there
not loner since and left multitudes of
fleas."
Many times the men, obliged to walk
on snore in passing tne rapias neiow
Celilo, were Invested by the enemy. Wher
ever they put their foot swarms of ver
min seemed to spring out of thd very
earth. Old straw and melodorous fish
skins, abandoned by Indians who had
been catching salmon but a short time
before, were thickly infested with the In
sects.
"These sagacious animals," continues
tho narrative, ''were so pleased to ex
change their straw and fish skins for a
better residence that we were soon cov
ered with them, and, during the portage,
the men were obliged to strip to the skin
In order to brush them from their bodies.
Thoy were not, however, so easily dls
lodged from our clothes, and accompanied
us In great numbers to camp."
The determination, not to say the
eagerness, displayed by Mrs. Alice M.
York, of San Francisco, to claim Mrs.
Chadwlck as her sister is one of the
surprising features of the sensational
Chadwlck case. One would think that
even a devoted sister would be slow to
proclaim such a relationship, preferring
rather to abide in silence the issue of
the case. Mrs. Chadwlck supplements
her positive denial of this reputed re
lationship with the explanation that
Mrs. xork is an eccentric person a
statement that Is probably as near the
truth as any that has emanated from
that quarter since this peculiar woman
has been before the public.
record in both of these organizations
there is no shadow. It is the record of I negro, and tho horrors of the Eu Klux clans
a, competent and faithful officer. would never have been Be that as It
Tint not in the- rans nf "hto nniw may. tne greatest duty tnat now devolves
Journal of 1902, "we need not limit our- period of English the time when it
selves t6 the Old Testament, where
doubtless some supposed facts may be
abandoned without detriment, as be
longing to the legendary or the ob
ecure; we may be constrained by sci
ence to go further, and to admit that
even fundamental Christian doctrines,
such as the Incarnation or non-natural
birth, and the Resurrection or non
natural disappearance of the body from
the tomb, have, from the scientific point
of view, no reasonable likelihood or
possibility whatever. It may be, and
often has been, asserted that they ap
pear as childish fancies, appropriate to
the Infancy of civilization and a pre
Bcientific credulous age; readily intelli
gible to the historian and student of
folk-lore, but not otherwise interesting.
The same has been said of every vari
ety of miracle, and not merely of such
dogmas as the fall of man from an
original state of perfection, of the
comparatively recent extirpation of the
human race down to a single family,
and so on."
It Is all futile, wholly futile. These
ideas cannot abide any scientific dis
cussion, for the thought escapes the
terms in which men attempt to clothe
1L The tendency of science, however, is
not so much to throw distrust upon the
existence of Deity itself as upon adjec
tives applied to the Deity. "Infinite"
and "eternal" may pass, and "omnipo
tent" and "omniscient" may reluc
tantly be permitted to go with
them these infinitive adjectives re
lieve the mind, without express
ing more than is implicitly contained
in the substantive God. But concern
ing "personal" and "benevolent" and
other anthropomorphic adjectives, sci
ence is exceedingly dubious; nor is om
nipotence itself very easily reconcilable
with the actual condition of things as
we now experience them. The present
was passing out of archaic into modern
forms.
"The Interlude of the Four Elements"
Is one of the earliest moral plays in the
English language known to exist. Its
peculiarity is that Science is attempted
in it to be made popular through the
medium of theatrical representation. It
Is founded on the old notion of the ex
istence of four elements "earth, air,
fire and water of their supposed quali
ties and properties, and of the genera
tion and corruption of things made of
the commixtlon of them." The persons
of the drama are allegorical, who one
after another attempt to set forth ideas
of astronomy and cosmography and
various conceptions of natural phenom
ena. The play sets forth certain conclu
sions proving that "the earth mustneeds
be round, that it hangeth in the midst
of the firmament, and that it Is In cir
cumference above 21,000 miles." This is
exceedingly curious, since it precedes
the first circumnavigation of the globe,
and by more than twenty years the pub
lication by Copernicus of his system of-
astronomy, which first announced the
planetary system and .the place of the
earth in it. For still another reason
the piece has a curious interest. It is
the first piece, writing or document in
English In which the name America ap
pears. Tne oate pi its composition is
approximately fixed by an allusion In it
to the discovery of the West Indies
"within this, twenty year.".
Relics like these are Interesting and
valuable chiefly, to students of the his
tory of literature. The whole subject,
embracing .all periods of English, has
been handled by many writers. The
literature . 'of it is very volumin
ous, and "grows continually. Scholars
of the Universities of Great Britain and
America, and even of France and .Ger
many, are expending great labor upon
in camp or on the battlefield did Cap
tain Barber meet death. It was Dr.
Barber, riding alone in the darkness
and the storm, over an unfamiliar
country; which was drenched with
Winter rains and furrowed by Winter
torrentst in answer to a call of human
need and in the hope to allay human
sunenng, tnat tne grim messenger
overtook and made hhn twice a hero
The final note of his life rings out high
and clear above the voices of the storm
and the surge of the engulfing waters
that sounded his requiem. .
ADove an tne cnronicies of war
stands the simple record of the sur
render of his life at the call of hu
manlty, as it spoke to him through the
cry of human need. And while the
State of Oregon and the comrades of
Captain Barber will not fail to accord
him the military respect that he fairly
won in camp and on the field, the pro
fesslon, in the discharge of the duties
and obligations of which he gave his
life, under circumstances at once heroic
and pathetic, may well honor Dr. Bar
ber.
It may be doubted whether anywhere
else upon the open scroll of the life of
a state are -to be found records that
attest to self-sacrifice and personal
heroism of the simple and enduring
type equal to those that follow the
country doctor on his rounds. In the
folk-lore stories of New England he
figures prominently as friend," confiden
tial adviser and alleviator of suffering;
a sympathetic listener to the woes of
the neighborhood. Whether he brought
hope and confidence to the birth cham
upon tho people of both sections is to make
provalent the spirit of these two men. both
of them singularly magnanimous and entirely
sympathetic with the other's point of view.
Non-revision of the tariff and boost
ing the ship-subsidy graft will not be
the only diversions at the present ses
sion of Congress. United States Mar
shals are already rounding up Mormon
apostles to appear before the Senate
subcommittee In the Reed Smoot In
vestigation. Among those already
served with subpenas is John Henry
Smith, lor many years one of the lead
ing members of the Trans-Mississippi
Congress, and if there is any man who
can set forth the merits of Mormonism,
if such there be. in good shape, the
committee secured him when it sub-
penaed the eloquent John Henry Smith.
MRS. MA YB RICK'S PATHETIC STORY,
Fifteen years oionea out from a
woman's life a mothers children
estranged from her health shattered
and friends forgotten and forgetting-
such Is the terrible fate of Mrs. May-
brick, whose own, pathetic story is
epitomized in The Oregonian today.
There is a note of simple sincerity and
an artless style in the recital that con
vince the reader of the woman's inno
cence of the hideous crime with which
she was charged, and this belief In her
Innocence make the record of Mrs.
Maybrlck's years in a prison cell one of
poignant appeal.
British belief In the infallibility of
British courts has received severe
shocks of late. The astounding case of
Adolf Beck, twice convicted of a crime
perpetrated by an abandoned criminal
of utterly different appearance. Is vers
likely to force the Institution of a court
of criminal appeal, and the indictment
of Home Office stupidity by the inves
tigating committee has strengthened
public suspicion that Mrs. Maybrlck
was unjustly condemned. When such a
lawyer as Baron Russell of Klllowen,
Lord Chief Justice of England, has
maintained publicly and privately that
a prisoner was unjustly convicted, the
layman is constrained to pause. When
in addition a great number of the most
acute criminal lawyers lrf the United
Kingdom and in America hold the same
All the way down the Columbia and dur
lng the whole of the semi-aquatic Winter
tho "tireless workers kept up their as
saults. The wetter the weather the more
lively the fleas. At Capo Horn, In a wet
camp, "among the smaller stones of
mountain," the explorers made "largo
fires to dry our bedding and kill the fleas,
which have accumulated on us at every
old village we have passed." But next
day the men beheld the Pacific Ocean and
forgot the pest. "Oclan in vlowl" wrote
Capta Clark. "Oh, the joy! And tho
rorelng or noise made by the waves brake
lng on the rockey shores may be heard
distinctly."
But the narrative gives evidence that
too much "luxury" was frequently too
much of a good thing, even for Indians,
since the "animals" would wax so multitu
dinous on the fish and wapato blood of the
savage aristocracy as to put their vic
tims to flight. "When they have once ob
tained mastery of any house," testify
Lewis and Clark, "it Is impossible to ex
pel them. The Indians frequently havo
different houses to which they resort oc
casionally when fleas have rendered their
permanent residence Intolerable."
Another Indian strategy was to pull
down tho "house" after it was abandoned
and thus allow the elements to chase tho
enemy away from the materials of the
dwelling. At the Cascades, where fleas
lay ambushed In countless myriads, Cap
tain Clark, on October 30, 1S05, found a
deserted village, whose lodges had been
taken down, the greater part of the
boards having been put into a pond near
the village, probably to drown the fleas
which were In Immense quantities near
the houses." Next day Captain Clark dis
covered another vhouse, decayed and unin
habited, "but felt no disposition to en
counter the fleas which abound in every
situation of that kind, and therefore did
not enter."
Wherever a Clatsop moved, or a Chinook
or a "KIHamuck." ho seemed to exhale
fleas like the odor carried ahead
by the breeze. They were har
bingers of his coming and souvenirs of
his going. They seemed to swarm about
him like Summer flies about a sweating
cayuso pony. Squaw ladles were infested
too; even the demi-monde wife of one-
eyed Concomly, a female who brought six
"fair wards," "daughters and nieces" to
tempt tho "not ironclad and invincible
virtue of the party."
"Every Indian, says the journal, "is
constantly attended by multitudes of
fleas, and none comes Into our house
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Bruiser.: Story for Girls.
Do not Issue any girls' books this season.
They are superfluous. A Bookseller in the
Book Monthly.
The class of book that would combine ro-
manco and adventure would be accorded
hearty welcome, A London Publisher.
I.
Wellington had made the score even.
and there was but a minute to play- The
supporters of Smyth's basketball team
were frantic. ,
"Bruiser! Bruiser!" they yelled.
John L. Sullivan heard the cries apd
smiled grimly. Picking up four of tne
opposing team she hurled them against
the wall, and with a clean field she
charged ahead. The Wellington DacK at
tempted to block her throw for tho bas
ket, and went reeling amongst the spec
tators with a broken collarbone.
"Goal, goal." cried the Smyth rooters.
'good old Bruiser."
II.
Joan awoke with a start. A stealthy
footstep there must be burglars in tho
house. And fair-haired Tom Longbeau,
her brother's friend, was alone in his
room, unprotected! Joan picked up tho
club that lay always by her bedside and
lipped noiselessly Into the corridor. Biff!
Biff! and two burglars bit the carpet
Tom was saved.
III.
A wild rush of hoofs down tho road
startled Joan. Coming towards her at a
terrific pace was her sister's drag, and
pale as death, Tom sat on the box, still
plucklly gripping the reins in his ab
surdly white little hands. Joan waited
until the maddened horses were abreast
of her, and then, putting all her strength
Into a Jlu jitsu trick she had learned at
Smyth, she flung them into the adjoining
lake.
Tom fell fainting into the arms of Joan.
"My darling," she muttered hoarsely.
A look of Infinite happiness came intc
his eye3, and' with a glad little cry of
Bruiser," his head sank upon her shoul
der.
IV.
Members of the Smyth basketball team
acted as ushers at the wedding, and Joan,
out of deference to Tom's wishes, wore
the bloodstained sweater in which she
had first wooed him.
A Sermon.
The choristers were splendid
As they rolled the anthem out.
Yet I know not. when tney ended,
What the words had been about;
Unseen were all the singers.
Half-hard the organ's din.
For the girl that sat beside me
Had a dimple in her chin.
I heard the reader droning
The lesson for the day.
How Naomi went moaning
Her lonely homeward way;
I thought how love came cheering
Young Ruth, bereft of kin.
And I felt that Farmer Boas
Saw a dimple In her chin.
I cannot yet determine
"Whether I slept or woke.
If I dreamed It through the sermon.
Or if the preacher spoke
Of the resplendent legions .
That fight the hosts of oln
But every blessed angel
Had a dimple in its chin.
Gold exports for November reached
the wholly unprecedented total for that
month' of 525,000,000. This movement is
explained partly by the fact that, ow
ing to peculiar conditions in Germany
and elsewhere abroad, our bankers can
make It profitable to ship gold, and fur
ther, that large lines of bonds, as the
new Pennsylvania and Rock Island is-
ctiH Vt o vp hvan tinnirht in TjOnrfrvn nnlv
to be quickly resold In this country to " " " '.o VST
secure the premium. It would certainly
be a mistake to Infer from the export3
of gold that the balance of trade in Eu
ropean markets is against us. We are
not paying gold abroad; we are lend
ing It.
A Russian torp'edo-boat is to proceed
across the Atlantic unaer its own
steam. Dispatches conveying this news
do not state whether an American or a
Russian crew will take the vessel from
the hands of the American builders. If
the craft starts out in command of the
Russians, everything else on the Atlan
tic will do well to keep out of the way.
The Dogger Bank affair Is of too recent
date to admit of any wild chances being
taken with a wandering Russian craft.
And how it is said that Emperor
Nicholas has issued orders to Admiral
Rojestvensky to halt the Baltic fleet.
The fate of the Port Arthur squadron
has shown what the Japs are able to do
ber, soothing touch to the brow of the opinion and the public In both coun- to the battleships of the empire, and
fever-tortured, consolation to the dj'ing tries is generally convinced that a ter- it would seem that the Czar has Con
or comfort to the house of mourning, rible blunder has been made, the reader
he was honored and trusted and loved, cannot but feel that Justice is the crim
Hls face, -bronzed by Summer heat or. inal and the prisoner but a victim. That
reddened by Winter gales, wore an ex- her case was tried by an insane Judge
presslon of benignity that was beautl- but adds a grotesque element to the
ful to see. His old-fashioned gig stand- tragedy.
T)reyfus was more fortunate than
Mrs.1 Maybrlck. His Devil's Island did
nothold him for fifteen years. His
friends had not, forgotten him when'
these tormentinsr Insects." Hence, the ex
pldrers found It necessary to reduce- the
number of their savage callers to as lew
as possible.
Evidently, Oregon contained more fleas a
century ago than now: Indeed, the pest Is
comparatively scarce at this day. Whence
have the Insects gone? Perhaps joined
their fragrant victims In tho happy hunt
ing grounds beyond. Memaloose Island
may be their sepulchre, or Mount Coffin,
where rest the bones of uncounted braves.
But not all the aboriginal insects have
gone to tne minting grounds, senator
Fulton tells a story of how one night he
sought refuge in an abandoned hut at
Cannon Beach, Clatsop County, and how
he was forced to take to his heels. "I
never saw anything like them," he re
marked, just before his latest trip to
Washington. "They came from every
where, and there didn t scorn-to be any
getting rid of them."
Ing at the door conveyed to every
passer-by the knowledge of human life
in peril, and of a dependable force to
the rescue. No storm was .severe
eluded that he has no more ships that
he wishes to subject to the deadly ac
curacy of Japanese, gunners.
If the Igorrotes, who eat dogs, desire
any Inducement to come to the '05 Fair,
we should be able very easily to guar
antee their food supply.
enough to make him shrink from re- Justice rebalanced her scales. Mrs.
sponding -to a call for- help, and no I Maybrlck remains the most pathetic
purse was slender enough to make him I sufferer from wrong clad in the robes
What are the High School authorities
doing that they permit these boys to
The Lord Loveth a Cheerful Fighter.
Max Pracht, the Poet of Peachblow
Paradise, has secured leave of absence
from Secretary Hitchcock, and will start
for Washington in a few days. This will
be an opportunity for the Secretary to
Inform himself as to some of the big
coal-land steals in Colorado, and will
furnish the redoubtable Colonel Greene
with opponents worthy of his steel. Evi
dence implicating bigbugs in Colorado In
land crookedness In comparison wltn
with the Puter-Watson would not cast
a shadow, has been got together at
various times by special agents of the
Department, but for some reason the
nrosecution has been delayed. It's now
carry on a foolish feud.w.lth the girls I jip tp. Colonel Greene. The Lord loveth a
of the senior class? 1 cheerful lighter.
Churcn over: Very slowly
I sought the outer street;
Somehow the place seemed holy,
A btStter-world retreat.
And as to what occasioned
The mood that I was in,
I think 'twas Just a sermon
"With' a dimple In her chin.
Lessons From "Everyman."
(For the benefit of those unable to wit
ness the morality play "Everyman," we
reproduce some of the old monk's' most
strlklnsr nieces of wisdom. Diagrams of
the spelling free to persons forwarding
a gold penny.)
Good-Felawshyp will not settle ye rek-
enyng an ye gette stucke for yc drinkes.
Goode-Dedes is a lusty knave, but Fyve-
Wyttes skynneth him In a poker gayme.
Dyscreclon flyeth away when Beaute
drawcth nye; hence dyvorces.
Ye Fryar Is worthy of hys burialle fee.
Evoryman hath an Aungell, wbych mak-
eth ye Ghoste to ambulate.
And then the morality play i3 such a
change from tho immorality play.
Now If the Sheriff will arrest tho Coro
ner the endless chain will bo completed.
Don't throw anything If we suggest that
the Port Arthur ships died at their berths.
From the things In store windows one cannot
helD knowing1
That Christmas is coming and-money is going.
Lawson paid $30,000 for a chrysanthe
mum, and it wasn't Indorsed by Andrew
Carnegie, either.
The great thing about "Everyman" is
that one has to enter into the spirit of
the play. There's no intermission, so one
can't get any other kind.
.
In Portland runaway boys aro put in
girls' clothes. In Seattle they are put in
shackles. Educational methods In this
country, it will be seen, are yet far from
uniform.
If any of our lenders have lent $5,000,000
on notes signed "Andrew Carnegie," wo
advise them to communicate with the
Ironmaster at once, as the signatures may
have been forged.
America pace Sir Edward Clarke la
strictly neutral In tho matter of the dis
agreement in Manchuria. That's why she
ships so many torpedo-boats to Russia.
The vessels harm neither Russia nor
Japan.
A 10-year-old girk in Anaconda drank
carbolic acid when her mother refused
to buy her a pair of high-heeled shoes.
Like all her sex. the poor child would
sooner die than be prevented from mak
ing herself uncomfortable.
The Seattle Argus says that two Ger
mans chanced to meet, and one of them
asked the other:
"Hauntz, how's your daughter dot vas
engaged to dot no count Casey man?"
"Ach! She's a sadder Budweiser girl,"
said the old man.
"Anhaueser wife?" asked the friend.
"Oh. she's petter since she's had der
Pllslner!" was the answer.
A woman writes to the New York Times
complaining that in every city of conse
quence in Europe is to be found an
"American Bar," with an American flag
over the door. "I resent this misuse of
our beloved country's name and flag,"
says the writer What's to be done? Even
the sarsaparllla joints are "American
soda fountains." The country's name is
indlssoiubly connected with world-supremacy
in mixed drinks for man and woman,
although some of the dope handed out
from the so-called "American" places
abroad would curl up the strongest Uson
lan In a death-agony.
WEXFORD JONES.